We leave Saturday morning to time with Ruby's sleep and hardly any traffic (such a joy :-)) and we arrive problem free to clear skies and a relative warmth in the air...........such a relief from the persistent rain of Lux!
Beautiful villages all around - sort of chocolate box appearance with cobbled streets, lovely views of the hills and vineyards EVERYWHERE.....fabtastic :-) sort of makes us feel like we're back in the 50s or something.......very old-fashioned restaurants and stuff (makes Luxembourg feel state of the art!!!!) but we had a great time. Apparently years ago you used to always see a stork on every church steeple top.......then they disappeared soa breeding programme begun some years ago........we didn't see any but we saw plenty of huge nests on tops of buildings (see picture below)....so there's a bit of not very useful factual information for you (omg - Conor's facts are rubbing off on me!!!!!).......and for those of you who don't know (and for me when I read this back in years to come and can't remember any of these places!) the Alsace is on the far east of France and borders Germany. The main city you will have heard of is Strasbourg, and of course wine is the main money-making occupation. Alsace wines come in those identifiable flute-like thin style bottles (and no they are not all yukky medium-sweet wines as my perception always was when i used to see them in the supermarket)!!!!! Riesling and Pinot Gris - very drinkable indeed!!!!!! And we bought a boat-load of Muscat - perfect apperitif :-))
Hotel fab (cour bailli)..............2 good rooms with lounge and kitchen......and of course no cleaning or cooking for me so can life get any better??!!!!! breakfast a huge hit with the kids as they eat coco pops, more coco pops and yes even a third bowl of .......you guessed it.......coco pops!! and nutella on toast to polish it all off!!!! thankfully plenty of hiking and climbing up hills to castles soon worked off the sugar-induced energy! Great castles all on the tops of hills from medieval days (has time moved on here yet??!!!!)..........a successful trip to a winery with Roubles sleeping and the other two entertained with a lolly and a book........we managed to taste a significant number of the local grape and thankfully we were close enough that we could walk back to the hotel!!!!! a good job we had the buggy to laden up with all our wine purchases!
We lunched in a local pub kind of place with plenty of locals ......tarte flambee the speciality of the region.....a french style pizza which is basically a thin pastry base covered with cream cheese/cream and then bacon and onions!
Hotel had a great restaurant and very kid friendly........obviously we were there at opening time and the only ones in.....by the time we left.....the place was chocker and Ruby had made plenty of friends!
Kids so exhausted they flopped into bed and shaun and i were in bed the earliest since we left UK.........readour books, had glass of wine and by 10.30pm lights out - bliss!!! In lux we never seem to manage to get to bed before midnight............not good!!!
Our last day we succumbed to visiting the hotel pool/jacuzzi which the kids had been nagging us about! it was underneath our room and the jacuzzi had a glass roof which we could see when we came outside on our patio.....conor and millie amused themselves by peering down on all the people in the jacuzzi and entertaining them with their moonies?!?!!!!!!!
After 2 and a half days of sun, bucket loads of fresh air and rich, heart-warming grub........it was time to head back! Lovely weekend and arrived back to Lux in (yet more!) rain!!!!
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